Is the COVID-19 pandemic over? President Joe Biden has said so for five months, yet he plans to keep the federal public health emergency into May – and he has already extended it a 12th time.
Meanwhile, Republicans in Congress just voted to end the emergency effective immediately. That should have happened a long time ago, because the public health emergency is merely cover for a massive welfare state expansion that will cost Americans for generations.
For at least the past year, the public health emergency has been more about sending checks than saving lives. Washington, D.C., is soaking taxpayers with hundreds of billions of dollars in higher food stamp and Medicaid costs tied to the emergency, while pushing millions of people out of the workforce.
Who Will Pay for Joe Biden’s Reckless Spending? Your Children Will for Decades.
Is the COVID-19 pandemic over? President Joe Biden has said so for five months, yet he plans to keep the federal public health emergency into May – and he has already extended it a 12th time.
Meanwhile, Republicans in Congress just voted to end the emergency effective immediately. That should have happened a long time ago, because the public health emergency is merely cover for a massive welfare state expansion that will cost Americans for generations.
For at least the past year, the public health emergency has been more about sending checks than saving lives. Washington, D.C., is soaking taxpayers with hundreds of billions of dollars in higher food stamp and Medicaid costs tied to the emergency, while pushing millions of people out of the workforce.